Metro PCS No longer in Illinois

[ClintIllinois]

I'm a resident in an suburb outside of Chicago Illinois.
I did lots of research in no contract phones.
While on the website, a customer service employee invited me to chat
and told me that Metro PCS was no longer activating service for Illinois residents.
When I called customer service a woman told me no we are still activating phones in Illinois.
But when I went to buy a phone, the address section did not include Illinois as a state.
Can't believe Metro would exclude all of Illinois but then I realize that TMobile probably wants Illinois for itself.
Did anyone know about this?

 

[Gman9831]

MetroPCS was never in Illinois in the 1st place? It's always been an extended home area, the closest market pre-merger was Detroit. However if you bring a GSM device there it'll work like native coverage.

 

[DirtyDee]

If you are in a great tmobile area order a metro phone and activate there good chance that metro stores are in short supply